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This seems totally reckless to me. Google is out of control!

by rjurney 17y ago

rjurney 17y ago
You guys have no sense of humor.
- rjurney 17y ago
  Alright. Feed me the bad karma. I still think its funny. Here's the joke, in case you didn't get it: "Releasing from beta after many years could not possibly be reckless, therefore saying that it is in an alarming manner is a HA HA funny time joke."
  - philwelch 17y ago
    It may be funny, but it doesn't add much of anything to the conversation. It's a rare joke that gets upmodded around here, but if it happens, it happens because it's also insightful and reveals something novel. There's nothing "novel" about "Google takes a long time to take things out of beta", which is why it's neither a good joke nor a good HN comment. In contrast, Paul Graham says a lot of funny things without even consciously trying because his essays are usually insightful enough to stumble across some surprising truths. Also, complaints about being downmodded are usually, in turn, downmodded themselves. It's like a bottomless pit of negative karma for narcissists who care too much about the value of some integer on the YC webserver :) EDIT: I'm not exceptionally interested in debating this. You seemed to not understand why you were modded down, and I explained.I don't really know you and have nothing against you, so I'm sorry if this seemed personal or hurtful.
    - rjurney 17y ago
      As to jokes: I disagree fundamentally. This is a silly little article anyway. I come out about even on jokes karma wise. You know whats worse than a bad joke though? PG ass kissing ;) Anyway, of course I knew I'd get more bad karma. I tend to enjoy it once in a while.
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        rjurney 17y ago
        I poop on you.
      - marze 17y ago
        It is silly because beta/no beta is a binary decision, and the actual beta-ness of a product is a scaler. So today they decide it has passed some arbitrary beta-ness threshold and the label goes away. This and the fact it took five years with millions of happy users, all you can do is joke about it. Totally meaningless otherwise.
        rjurney 17y ago
        Thank you. This is a non-event. At least someone gets that and isn't looking for a 'profound analysis.' False profundity makes for some of the worst comments.
    - rjurney 17y ago
      Its cool broseph :) We're fine, and this has all bee nrelatively harmless. I retract my pooping on you.

This seems totally reckless to me. Google is out of control!

by rjurney 17y ago

This seems totally reckless to me. Google is out of control!

rjurney 17y ago

You guys have no sense of humor.

rjurney 17y ago
Alright. Feed me the bad karma. I still think its funny. Here's the joke, in case you didn't get it: "Releasing from beta after many years could not possibly be reckless, therefore saying that it is in an alarming manner is a HA HA funny time joke."
- philwelch 17y ago
  It may be funny, but it doesn't add much of anything to the conversation. It's a rare joke that gets upmodded around here, but if it happens, it happens because it's also insightful and reveals something novel. There's nothing "novel" about "Google takes a long time to take things out of beta", which is why it's neither a good joke nor a good HN comment. In contrast, Paul Graham says a lot of funny things without even consciously trying because his essays are usually insightful enough to stumble across some surprising truths. Also, complaints about being downmodded are usually, in turn, downmodded themselves. It's like a bottomless pit of negative karma for narcissists who care too much about the value of some integer on the YC webserver :) EDIT: I'm not exceptionally interested in debating this. You seemed to not understand why you were modded down, and I explained.I don't really know you and have nothing against you, so I'm sorry if this seemed personal or hurtful.
  - rjurney 17y ago
    As to jokes: I disagree fundamentally. This is a silly little article anyway. I come out about even on jokes karma wise. You know whats worse than a bad joke though? PG ass kissing ;) Anyway, of course I knew I'd get more bad karma. I tend to enjoy it once in a while.
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      - rjurney 17y ago
        I poop on you.
    - marze 17y ago
      It is silly because beta/no beta is a binary decision, and the actual beta-ness of a product is a scaler. So today they decide it has passed some arbitrary beta-ness threshold and the label goes away. This and the fact it took five years with millions of happy users, all you can do is joke about it. Totally meaningless otherwise.
      - rjurney 17y ago
        Thank you. This is a non-event. At least someone gets that and isn't looking for a 'profound analysis.' False profundity makes for some of the worst comments.
  - rjurney 17y ago
    Its cool broseph :) We're fine, and this has all bee nrelatively harmless. I retract my pooping on you.